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Language. English. Budget. $1,318,000 [1] Box office. $1,648,000 [1] Cynthia is a 1947 American comedy drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Mary Astor, Elizabeth Taylor, and George Murphy. The film is based on the 1945 play The Rich, Full Life by Viña Delmar and was adapted by screenwriters Harold Buchman and Charles Kaufman.
- $1,318,000
- Edwin H. Knopf
Cynthia: Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. With Elizabeth Taylor, George Murphy, S.Z. Sakall, Mary Astor. Sickly girl finds an outlet in music.
- (683)
- Comedy, Drama, Music
- Robert Z. Leonard
- 1947-08-29
But more than 40 years later, British critic Alexander Walker re-evaluated, calling Cynthia one of Taylor's "unjustly forgotten triumphs of tact, sympathy, pathos and insistent self-assertion; and the identification with Cynthia by the bobby-soxers who saw it must have been total. It is one of the most likeable movies of adolescent independence."
- Robert Z. Leonard, Marvin Stuart
- Elizabeth Taylor
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May 13, 2014 · Majorly adult themes like regret and loss take a teenage turn in Robert Z. Leonard's 1947 film Cynthia, based on the play The Rich, Full Life by Viña Delmar. Mary Astor and George Murphy star as a set of parents who sacrificed their own young-adult ambitions for the sake of raising their sickly infant daughter, who, now at the cusp of adulthood herself (and played by Elizabeth Taylor), is ...
Cynthia Bishop (Elizabeth Taylor) has always been a sickly girl, and her parents (Mary Astor, George Murphy) have grown fiercely protective of their darling daughter. When Cynthia wins a starring ...
- Comedy, Drama
Cynthia is a 1947 American comedy drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Mary Astor, Elizabeth Taylor, and George Murphy. The film is based on the 1945 play The Rich, Full Life by Viña Delmar and was adapted by screenwriters Harold Buchman and Charles Kaufman.
